{"id":17633,"date":"2025-12-07T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=17633"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:10:39","slug":"meet-akhenatens-grandson-man-goes-viral-for-resemblance-to-the-ancient-egyptian-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=17633","title":{"rendered":"Meet Akhenaten\u2019s \u2018grandson\u2019: man goes viral for resemblance to the ancient Egyptian king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/05\/772da773-62f7-4107-92ef-04cc8ad93f74_0331e853.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">High cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a prominent chin: Pharaoh Akhenaten\u2019s facial features, as seen in various sculptures, often stand out among the various depictions of ancient Egyptian kings.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">While it cannot be known for certain if Nefertiti\u2019s husband actually looked as the sculptures suggest or if they were a result of artistic expression, a photo of Egyptian influencer Youssef Mohamed posing next to one in the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Grand Egyptian Museum<\/span> has gone viral \u2013 and it suggests that the bust was a naturalistic representation.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The resemblance between 23-year-old law student Mohamed and the bust of Akhenaten is striking, and no one is more surprised than Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that,\u201d Mohamed says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Before he went to the museum to take photos for social media, he had no idea about his resemblance to the legendary pharaoh. The answer from his fellow internet users, however, has been loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPeople wrote that I was evidently a descendant of the pharaohs. There\u2019s no need for a DNA test.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/3335296\/meet-akhenatens-grandson-man-goes-viral-resemblance-ancient-egyptian-king?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a prominent chin: Pharaoh Akhenaten\u2019s facial features, as seen in various sculptures, often stand out among the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12050,5434,7941,11628,2743,140,272,12051,810],"class_list":["post-17633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-akhenatens","tag-ancient","tag-egyptian","tag-grandson","tag-king","tag-man","tag-meet","tag-resemblance","tag-viral","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}